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Teleostomi Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

It is careless of you having smoked in the building.



(1) It is careless of you having smoked in the building.
Is this sentence informal? Is this a kind of sentence you could use in formal writings as you hand in at school?


(2)It is careless of you to have smoked in the building.
Which would you choose when you talk with your friend?
  

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It was most unthoughtful of you to have smoked/smoking in the building. (formal)

— Inchoateknowledge

  • It was most unthoughtful of you to have smoked/smoking in the building.
  • (formal)
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It was most unthoughtful of you to have smoked/smoking in the building. (formal)
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Which would you choose when you talk with your friend?
How could you be so careless as to smoke in the building?
Don't you think you were being careless to smoke in the building?

(I don't know what meaning you are trying for with the word careless, unless there are a lot of inflammable materials in the building in question. That's the sort of
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